THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
It was a note, typed on a modern machine, paper crisp and new, clipped directly over a photograph of Cattleya herself leaving the Vesper Estate the night before.
“You think you are studying the anomaly, Cattleya. You think you are the hunter. But you have walked into the cage, and the lock has already been turned.â€
A floorboard creaked behind her.
Cattleya froze. She didn”t turn around. She didn”t reach for her scalpel. The sound of heavy, measured footsteps began to advance slowly, deliberately, down the aisle toward her.
A voice, low and devoid of all warmth, drifted out of the darkness.